Browsing Topic Best Progress Quotes

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

Progress cannot be generated when we are satisfied with existing situations.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. The more experience we gain, the more progress we can make.

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is ‘Am I progressing?’

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

Be grateful for challenges because… Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution – Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

If you are through with dreams, then progress halts.

The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.

The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own.

Trying to fix another person will only add to my anxiety. Letting Jesus work on me is where real progress can happen.

Wounds.
Broken places.
Possibility.
Change.
Steps toward holiness.
Imperfect progress.
The hurt in those who hurt me—their underbellies.
Grace.
Love.
Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.
And to discover through all this seeing—being unglued isn’t all that bad.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.